Category: facelift

A Study of the MACS Facelift

Facelifts come in many variations and names and, while many are very similar in their surgical technique, others are distinctly different by more than just their name. One such category of facelifts has been that of a family of scaled down versions from more traditional full or extended facelifts known as ‘limited facelifts’. These type Read More…

Plastic Surgery Humor – Facelift

Almost everyone’s concept of a facelift is one that is pulled too tight. This misconception undoubtably comes from celebrities who have made somewhat of a career and perpetual jokes about their own facelifts. Such notables include Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers. They made a good living poking fun at themselves and their own taut Read More…

Treatment of Greater Auricular Nerve Injuries from Facelift Surgery

Facelifts are common facial rejuvenation surgeries that are associated with relatively few minor after surgery problems. (e.g., tightness and banding) Many of these issues are self solving with time as tissues heal and relax. One issue that may not improve with time is a nerve injury. While the greatest fear of nerve injury from a Read More…

Options in Contemporary Surgical Neck Rejuvenation

The neck, like the face, ages although it does so in a more simplistic fashion. With the neck it is only a matter of loss of the neck angle due to loose skin, fat accumulations and midline muscle separation. But with different degrees of neck aging at different times in life, the type of Read More…

Case Study: The Direct Necklift for the Older Male Neck Wattle

Background: The neck sags with age due to the development of sagging skin and fat and the separation of the neck muscles which exposes the subplatysmal fat. These neck changes can become really pronounced as one reaches the sixth and seventh decades of life. This is the time that many men take notice of their Read More…

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Male Facelift Surgery

Facelifts, technically known as a rhytidectomy, remains a very popular facial plastic surgery procedure despite the influence of numerous injectable facial therapies. According to statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) in 2012, 126,000 facelift procedures were done in the U.S.. Given that there are now many different types of facelifts from Lifestyle Read More…

Case Study: Facelift with Chin Augmentation

Background: As the face ages the tissues above the jawline fall and descend over it. This ‘wax off the candle effect’ combined with a sagging neck create the need for a facelift procedure which reverses many of these facial aging effects. Contrary to the perception of many, a facelift only treats the lower third of Read More…

Five Misconceptions About Facelifts

The facelift procedure is one of the most recognizable operations in all of plastic surgery. Between the historic belief that all facelifts result in a ‘windblown’ or overdone look to the well advertised Lifestyle Lift of today, facelift surgery carries with it many perceptions and opinions…many of which are either blatantly wrong or misinformed. Read More…

The Younger Facelift – Less Is Just About Right

This generation of facelift patients is seeing a paradigm shift in how this facial rejuvenation procedure is being performed. In days gone by, one appeared when they were in their late 50s and 60s and had the procedure as a ‘reward’ for their years of life or waited until they retired when they had more Read More…

Case Study: Full Facelift for Neck Wattle Correction

Background: The concept of a facelift is one of the most recognizeable plastic surgery terms/procedures. It is such a pervasive term in the world of anti-aging treatments that the mere mention of its name evokes strong reactions, some positive and others very derogatory about it. But despite its familiarity and perceptions, it is one of Read More…